Greenock
Greenock is a port on the Clyde estuary, with a population of 41,000 in 2020. Historically it was part of Renfrewshire but is now within Clydeside in the Central Belt of Scotland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 42,800 residents
- Description: town and administrative center of Inverclyde, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Greenock, Renfrewshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include McLean Museum and Greenock Central railway station.
McLean Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The McLean Museum and Art Gallery is a museum and art gallery situated in Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland. It is the main museum in the Inverclyde area, it is free to visit and was opened in 1876.
Greenock Central railway station
Railway station
Photo: Gerd Fahrenhorst, CC BY 4.0.
Greenock Central station is one of eight railway stations serving the town of Greenock in western Scotland, and is the nearest to the town centre. This station, which is staffed, is on the Inverclyde Line, 37 km west of Glasgow Central towards Gourock.
Cappielow
Stadium
Photo: JimJim, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cappielow, also known as Cappielow Park supported by Dalrada Technology UK for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gourock and Port Glasgow.
Gourock
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gourock is a ferry port on Clydeside in the Central Belt of Scotland. Most visitors are only passing through, to catch ferries to Dunoon in Argyll. In 2022 Gourock had a population of 10,200.
Port Glasgow
Town
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Port Glasgow is the second-largest town in the Inverclyde council area of Scotland. The population according to the 1991 census for Port Glasgow was 19,426 persons and in the 2001 census was 16,617 persons. Port Glasgow is situated 2½ miles east of Greenock.
Fort Matilda
Suburb
Photo: Dave souza, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Fort Matilda is an area of the town of Greenock in Inverclyde, Scotland. Its name comes from a coastal battery built on Whiteforeland Point 1814–1819 to defend the River Clyde.
Greenock
- Categories: large burgh and locality
- Location: Inverclyde, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.9473° or 55° 56′ 50″ northLongitude
-4.7565° or 4° 45′ 23″ westPopulation
42,800Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB GRKOpen location code
9C7QW6WV+WCOpenStreetMap ID
node 27039158OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Greenock” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غرينوك”
- Armenian: “Գրինոկ”
- Asturian: “Greenock”
- Azerbaijani: “Qrinok”
- Basque: “Greenock”
- Belarusian: “Грынак”
- Breton: “Grianaig”
- Bulgarian: “Грийнок”
- Catalan: “Greenock”
- Cebuano: “Greenock (kapital sa dapit sa konseho)”
- Cebuano: “Greenock”
- Chechen: “Гринок”
- Chinese: “格里诺克”
- Chinese: “格里諾克”
- Chuvash: “Гринок”
- Czech: “Greenock”
- Danish: “Greenock”
- Dutch: “Greenock”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جرينوك”
- Esperanto: “Greenock”
- Estonian: “Greenock”
- Finnish: “Greenock”
- French: “Greenock”
- Georgian: “გრინოკი”
- German: “Greenock”
- Greek: “Γκρήνοκ”
- Hebrew: “גרינוק”
- Icelandic: “Greenock”
- Interlingua: “Greenock”
- Irish: “Grianaig”
- Italian: “Greenock”
- Japanese: “グリーノック”
- Japanese: “グリーンノック”
- Korean: “그리녹”
- Lithuanian: “Grinokas”
- Manx: “Grianaig”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Greenock”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Greenock”
- Norwegian: “Greenock”
- Persian: “گرینوک”
- Polish: “Greenock”
- Portuguese: “Greenock”
- Russian: “Гринок”
- Scots: “Greenock”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Greenock”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Grianaig”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Greenock”
- Silesian: “Greenock”
- Slovak: “Greenock”
- Slovenian: “Greenock”
- South Azerbaijani: “قرینوک”
- Spanish: “Greenock”
- Swahili: “Greenock”
- Swedish: “Greenock”
- Ukrainian: “Грінок”
- Urdu: “گریناک”
- Welsh: “Greenock”
- Welsh: “Grianaig”
- Western Frisian: “Greenock”
- Western Panjabi: “گرینوک”
- “Greenock”
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